SHRIEK ATTACK!
This was the Big One for New York’s growing gaggle of black-death-thrashspeed metal hordes. Slayer’s latest, Reign In Blood, seemed to imprint every selfrespecting leather in the city with the Slay-star logo. Hair was flying in anticipation.
SHRIEK ATTACK!
PARAMETRIC PURGATORY
SLAYER The Ritz New York City
December 7, 1986
Kris Needs
This was the Big One for New York’s growing gaggle of black-death-thrashspeed metal hordes. Slayer’s latest, Reign In Blood, seemed to imprint every selfrespecting leather in the city with the Slay-star logo. Hair was flying in anticipation. It promised to be a night to remember.
And it certainly was.
Never have I been exposed to such overwhelming volume (in excess of Motorhead themselves). Never have I witnessed such berserk crowd response, with the bouncers working overtime hurling the tidal wave of flying stage-divers into their moments of glory. Never have I heard such stupid stage announcements as those of singer/bassist Tom Araya!
Yes, this was a maximum event. Afterward I had to take a shovel and scrape my brains off the back wall in order to shove them back into my cranium. And they went in upside-down, like Slayer’s stage crosses. Now I think I’m the God of Hell-fire.